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1319 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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August 10, 2009, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Almost a week after Israeli prime minister held his first talks with US president Barack Obama at the White House, last Tuesday, May 18, some of the fog obscuring their content is finally beginning to clear.
The White House was forced to rebut a major misapprehension, that the US president would ... 
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July 26, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report a serious setback in Israel's defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. Thursday, July 23, the newly upgraded Arrow II missile defense system, poised for its first long-range test at the US Pacific range off the central California coast, could not be launched because of "interceptor ...
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, July 19, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply rejected the US demand handed to Israeli ambassador Michael Oran to halt construction of Jewish estate at the Shepherd's Hotel site in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu stressed that hundreds of Arab residents have purchased apartments in the west of the city without difficulty and ... 
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Southern Nevadans were warned last week that 62 warplanes would take off twice a day from Nellis Air Force Base, home of 414th Combat US Training Squadron northwest of Las Vegas in the latest 11-day Red Flag exercise.
A large number of Israeli F-16C fighter-bombers from IAF Squadron 110 are taking ... 
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July 19, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Israeli prime minister appeals for peace talks with the Palestinians, Saudi and Egyptian rulers backed from Washington pursue a plan that will end up giving Hamas legitimacy and backstage veto power over peace talks with Israel.
Netanyahu needs to state where he stands on this scheme. 
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July 17, 2009, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu have begun exchanging messages with Syrian president Bashar Assad through a new channel of communications opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, debkafile's diplomatic sources reveal. When Assad arrived in Baku Wednesday, July 8, he found a message waiting ...
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July 7, 2009, 9:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Dolphin-class attack submarine is reported to be the first Israeli naval vessel to transit the Suez Canal in four years on its way from Haifa to Eilat last month. According to debkafile's military sources, the move indicates a strengthening of the informal Israel-Egyptian-Saudi pact forged in recent ...
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July 6, 2009, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government's decision Sunday, June 28, to extend Meir Dagan's service as director of Israel's external intelligence service, the Mossad, until the end of 2010 raised some dust in political circles - especially after his deputy resigned in a huff over the long wait for his turn at the ...
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June 30, 2009, 4:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite his pledge to keep security considerations uppermost in his dealings with the Palestinians, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is buckling under pressure from the US administration aimed at softening Israel up ahead of Middle East peace talks.
This pressure turned Netanyahu's first official visits to Rome and Paris sour. He ... 
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June 28, 2009, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In less than a month, aides in Washington and Jerusalem have transmuted the head-on clash forecast for the first meeting between Binyamin Netanyahu has Israel's prime minister and US president Barack Obama Monday, May 18, into a warm, amicable encounter, debkafile's political analysts say.
This is less thanks ... 
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June 26, 2009, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ruling circles in Tehran have interpreted a remark by Israel's Mossad director Meir Dagan as signifying Jerusalem's non-interference in the domestic turmoil besetting the regime over the disputed presidential election, debkafile's Iranian sources report. They see Israel lining up with the mainstream Arab governments such as Egypt and ...
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June 26, 2009, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak said his talks in Cairo Sunday, June 21, with President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian defense minister Gen. Tantawi and intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman were interesting and wide-ranging.
Iran obviously figured high on their agenda with both sides trading views, intelligence input and evaluations.
DEBKAfile
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June 20, 2009, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Hall Sunday, June 14, failed to offer a new diplomatic beginning for approaching the intractable conflict with the Palestinians, according to debkafile's analysts. He finally accepted the two-state solution promoted by US president Barak Obama but tagged ...
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June 19, 2009, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin for the first time spoke in favor of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in his speech at Bar Ilan University Sunday, June 14. But only on condition that the Palestinian state is demilitarized, does not control its air space, accepts effective security arrangements against arms smuggling, ...
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June 13, 2009, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
If successful, Binyamin Netanyahu's first meeting as Israeli prime minister with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm el Sheikh Monday, May 11, may well mark an epic turning-point in Middle East history recalling the 1979 peace breakthrough with Egypt. Their common goals - and Mubarak speaks for the Saudi king ...
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June 9, 2009, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres' task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new Washington line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran.
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu can expect the full force of a bludgeon to be ...
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June 8, 2009, 10:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz, director of Israeli military intelligence (AMAN) research division, estimates that Iran will have accumulated enough fissile material to build its first nuclear bomb by the end of this year. Iran's nuclear clock is ticking away faster than international diplomacy.
The US demand not to provide for ...
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June 3, 2009, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports the apparently deranged shooter, Yoel Almog Danashvili, 48, told police he felt threatened by an Arab who approached him while he was meditating on a busy Jerusalem intersection early Tuesday, June 2, and shot him dead. Again fearing attack, he later shot two Jews, injuring one ...
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May 28, 2009, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The detailed report compiled by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington last month, complete with graphs and diagrams, has been reprinted in thousands of copies in Tehran. It is compulsory reading for its intelligence and Revolutionary Guards personnel because the Study on a Possible Israeli Strike ...
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May 27, 2009, 9:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai outlined the nationwide civil defense exercise to be staged next week in a briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Monday, May 25. Next Tuesday, he said, sirens would send the entire population heading for the nearest shelters or protected sites.
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